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Boca Raton FL (SPX) Sep 08, 2023
Terran Orbital (NYSE: LLAP) has announced a new lineup of seven standard satellite bus platforms. Over a decade ago, Terran Orbital pioneered the creation of CubeSat standards, and now, we are establishing new benchmarks for satellite technology for the coming decade. These standards are built upon Terran Orbital's manufacturing capabilities, featuring components and modules that can be readily
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Cedar Park TX (SPX) Sep 08, 2023
Firefly Aerospace, Inc., an end-to-end space transportation company, has signed a multi-launch agreement with L3Harris Technologies [NYSE:LHX] for three dedicated launches on Firefly's Alpha vehicle in 2026. The agreement further positions Firefly as the leader in small-lift launch services as the company ramps up production of its Alpha vehicle to support the growing needs of both government an

Sea launch 1st by Chinese private entity

Friday, 08 September 2023 12:47
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Beijing, China (SPX) Sep 08, 2023
Galactic Energy has become the first Chinese private company to carry out a sea-based launch mission. The Beijing-based company announced on Tuesday evening that the sea-borne variant of its CERES 1 carrier rocket conducted its first liftoff at 5:34 pm that day from a mobile launch platform - a modified deck barge - in the Yellow Sea off the eastern province of Shandong. It then sent four
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Beijing, China (SPX) Sep 08, 2023
The safe landing of the probe is one of the most difficult challenges in Mars exploration, and the Mars supersonic parachute is extremely important for this process. To date, all the successful Mars exploration missions have used disk-gap-band (DGB) parachutes. However, the DGB parachute with the highest diameter of 21.35 m cannot be further used for future Mars exploration missions with higher
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Beijing (XNA) Sep 08, 2023
China published two new batches of data on Monday, obtained by its Mars probe and lunar probe. The scientific data obtained by three scientific payloads including a high-definition camera on Tianwen 1, the country's Mars probe, from January to March this year, have been released, amounting to nearly 68 gigabytes, according to the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy o
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Luxembourg (SPX) Sep 08, 2023
Expanding on a partnership committed to close the connectivity divide across Mexico, CFE Telecomunicaciones e Internet para Todos (CFE TEIT) and SES has announced the delivery of voice and data services enabled by SES's Mobile Backhaul solution to 400 underserved, remote villages and communities across the country via the very high throughput SES-17 Ka-band satellite. With the common goal
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London, UK (SPX) Sep 08, 2023
Vodafone and Project Kuiper, Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite (LEO) communications initiative, has announced a strategic collaboration through which Vodafone and Vodacom plan to use Project Kuiper's network to extend the reach of 4G/5G services to more of their customers in Europe and Africa. Vodafone and Vodacom plan to use Project Kuiper's high-bandwidth, low-latency satellite network

Week in images: 04-08 September 2023

Friday, 08 September 2023 12:05
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Hubble dispels dust to see a glittering globular cluster

Week in images: 04-08 September 2023

Discover our week through the lens

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The Astronaut Center of China 90-d head-down bed rest: overview, countermeasures, and effects
The timeline of the 90-d head-down bed rest (HDBR) experiment from 2 months of volunteer recruitment. Credit: Space: Science & Technology

When astronauts enter space, they are exposed to weightlessness. Physiological and psychological challenges are waiting ahead. They may have a puffy face and experience space motion sickness, cardiovascular deconditioning, muscle atrophy, and bone loss.

Moreover, long-term spaceflight has been shown to result in 83% of astronauts with post-flight orthostatic intolerance. For such problems, exercise countermeasures can be the primary approach to resolve these changes. Head-down bed rest (HDBR) simulates physiological effects in weightlessness and is widely used in countermeasure testing, and efficacy of exercise interventions has been widely studied in HDBR with different periods as well.

Usually, the long-term bed rest experiment is completed in stages, and a positive control of separated exercise countermeasures rarely tests at the same time in these experiments.

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Scientists developed a method for traction ability research of a rover wheel on mixed planet terrain with movable stones
Stress distribution diagram of wheel-soil contact. Credit: Space: Science & Technology

The Chang'e-6/7/8 exploration mission has been announced officially by China recently, and the international lunar and Mars research station plans will be carried out within the 2030s. It can be predicted that China's future lunar and Mars surface exploration activities will last longer, have a larger exploration range, and have a more complex terrain to traverse and explore, which will pose severe challenges to the working performance of the planet rover and its adaptability to the planet surface environment.

One of the key problems will be to study the relationship between the mechanical properties of planet soil and the traction performance of the planet rover's . The mixed terrains of terramechanics research are mainly composed of static stones and loose soil.

Whereas, the movement behavior of stones is often ignored while analyzing the influence of the wheel's traction performance caused by mixed terrain.

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